The Danosphere.

I'm enjoying commenting more and more now. it's a nice pass time. I like this post. I think disqus is one demonstration as to how important commenting is.

you could also use this for a horizontal dashed line (and the same for vertical but flip the x and y in the loop and moveto/lineto values)

public function drawHorizDashedLine(startX:Number, startY:Number, endX:Number, endY:Number):void{
var line:UIComponent = new UIComponent();
line.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xff0000,1,false,"normal","none");
var gap:int=6;
for (var i:int = startX; i < endX; i = i + gap ) {
line.graphics.moveTo( startX + i, startY);
line.graphics.lineTo( startX + i + gap / 2, endY);
}
addChild(lineparent);
}